Contemporary authors
Subtitle: a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields
By: Michael J. Tyrkus, project editor
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781410311528; 9781410311351; 9781410389640
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Authors; Bio-bibliography; Modern Literature; Dramatists; Journalists; Motion picture authorship; Poets; Screenwriters; Television writers
Description: Provides biographical details on thousands of modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Includes current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century and authors from around the world. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Notes: "ISSN 0010-7468."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Becky Albertalli, 1983; title: Sarah Alderson; title: Alyssa Alexander; title: Kathryn Reed Altman; title: Jacob M. Appel, 1973-; title: Jennifer L. Armentrout, 1980-; title: Andrew Aydin, 1983-; title: Jennifer S. Baker, 1953-; title: Susan C. Ball, 1957-; title: Rebecca Barry, 1968-; title: Christopher Bartley, 1963-; title: Tamar Barzel; title: Christophe Bassons, 1974-; title: Mark Beeman; title: Josie Bell (see Jenn McKinlay); title: J. Todd Billings, 1973; title: Jeanne Bishop; title: John Bivens; title: Ally Blue; title: Michael Bond; title: Joseph Bristow, 1958-; title: Michael Bundock; title: Dave Burchett; title: Tom Burgis; title: Ryan Burton; title: Nessa Carey; title: Charlie Carroll; title: Julie Castillo, 1965-; title: Ann Chapman; title: Mallika Chopra, 1971-; title: Wendy D. Churchill; title: Gary Cieradkowski; title: Tracy Clark; title: John Clement, 1962-; title: Raul Clement; title: Welcome Cole; title: Manda Collins; title: Cyrus Copeland, 1964-; title: Katie Cotugno; title: Susan Crawford; title: Kim Cross, 1976-; title: Cathy Curtis; title: Giulia d'Agnolo Vallan; title: Roger Dahl; title: Kaayla T. Daniel; title: B.J. Daniels; title: Victoria Dawson; title: Monique Brinson Demery, 1976-; title: Walter B. Denny, 1942-; title: Abby Denson; title: Seymour Diamond, 1925-; title: Carola Dibbell; title: Cate Dicharry; title: Tim Dowling, 1963-; title: Brendan Duffy; title: Erin Dutton; title: Timothy Dwyer, 1965-; title: Paul Edwards, 1982-; title: Rita Eichenstein; title: Elizabeth Evans, 1951-; title: Hermione Eyre, 1980-; title: Wendy W. Fairey, 1942-; title: Charles E. Farhadian, 1964-; title: Mark Andrew Ferguson; title: Donna L. Ferullo, 1957-; title: David P. Fidler, 1964-; title: Jan Fields; title: Anne K. Fishel; title: Elizabeth Fixmer, 1952-; title: April L. Ford; title: B. Christopher Frueh (see Christopher Bartley); title: Margaret Fuhrer; title: Carlos Gamerro, 1962-; title: Ryan Gattis, 1978-; title: Allen Gee; title: Michael C. Gerald; title: Lamar Giles, 1979-; title: Gonzalo Giner, 1962-; title: Robert Glinski; title: Rita Goldberg, 1949-; title: Rebecca Goldstein (see Becky Albertalli); title: Harriet Goodchild; title: Emily Graves; title: Judith Canty Graves; title: Mila Gray (see Sarah Alderson); title: Lisa Green; title: Jamie Grifo; title: Francesca Haig, 1982; title: Glen Erik Hamilton; title: John Hargrove; title: Brian Harvey, 1948-; title: Jeremy Hawkins, 1978-; title: Barbara Johnson Heinlein (see B.J. Daniels); title: Becky Hepinstall Hilliker; title: Kyle Higgins, 1985-; title: Larry Holcombe, 1943-; title: Saad Z. Hossain; title: Huan Hsu; title: Eddie Huffman, 1964-; title: Charles L. Hughes, 1982-; title: Julie E. Hughes, 1978-; title: Laura Hurwitz; title: Celia Imrie, 1952-; title: Harris Irfan; title: Jennie Isbell; title: Micah L. Issitt; title: Hiromi Ito, 1955-; title: Susanna Ives; title: Ron Jackson, 1966-; title: Mark Jung-Beeman (see Mark Beeman); title: Douglas Kalajian; title: Bhanu Kapil, 1968-; title: Vanessa Kelly; title: Sheila McCauley Keys; title: Paul W.T. Kingston; title: David Kishik; title: Jeff Koehler; title: John Kounios; title: Gavin Kovite, 1981; title: Megan Kruse; title: Thomas Kunkel, 1955-; title: Alexis Landau; title: John Launer; title: Lucy Lawrence (see Jenn McKinlay); title: Steven I. Levine, 1941-; title: Bower Lewis; title: Tania Luna; title: J. Lynn (see Jennifer L. Armentrout); title: James Macdonald, 1951-; title: Meg Maguire (see Cara McKenna); title: Carlyn Main; title: Diego Marani, 1959-; title: Mike Mayo, 1948-; title: Cara McKenna; title: Paige McKenzie, 1995; title: Jenn McKinlay; title: Jenny McLachlan; title: John McQuaid; title: Michael J. McVicar; title: Ann Morgan; title: Barbara Klein Moss; title: Loretta Napoleoni, 1955-; title: Barbara Falconer Newhall; title: Ethan Nichtern; title: Helen O'Donnell; title: Aline Ohanesian; title: Jan Olsson, 1952-; title: Steve Osborne, 1960-; title: Sydney Padua; title: Marian Palaia; title: Carey Perloff, 1959-; title: Brent Phillips, 1968-; title: Kyra Phillips, 1968-; title: Nora Pouillon, 1943-; title: Aldis Purs; title: Tom Pyszcynski; title: Tage Shakti Rai; title: Anna Randol; title: Bhanu Kapil Rider (see Bhanu Kapil); title: David Rigby; title: John P. Riordan; title: Ben Robertson; title: Christopher Robinson, 1982-; title: Maya Rock; title: Trina St. Jean, 1971-; title: Mohammedou Ould Salahi (see Mohamedou Ould Slahi); title: Latifah Salom; title: Heather Sappenfield; title: Bruce Schneier, 1963-; title: Bernhard Schroeder; title: Jonathan Shaw, 1953-; title: Alyssa B. Sheinmel; title: David S. Shields, 1951-; title: Jacob Silverman; title: Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 1970-; title: Peter Slevin; title: Thomas Small; title: Terri-Lynne Smiles; title: Annabel Smith, 1974-; title: Sheldon Solomon; title: Gabriel Squailia; title: Nicole Starosielski, 1984-; title: Tricia Stirling; title: Clark Strand, 1957-; title: Ragan Sutterfield, 1980-; title: V.K. Sykes (see Vanessa Kelly); title: David C. Taylor, 1944-; title: Levi Tillemann; title: Henry Turner, 1962-; title: Jessica N. Turner; title: Ashlee Vance, 1977-; title: Alessandra Viola; title: Janis Waldrop (see Jan Fields); title: Becky Wallace; title: Brighton Walsh; title: Daria Werner (see Daria Wilke); title: Lee Spencer White, 1955-; title: Sue Whiting, 1960-; title: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor; title: Daria Wilke, 1976-; title: Gwendolyn Womack, 1970-; title: Cecily Wong; title: Ying Ying; title: Ann Yost; title: Suzanne Young, 1976-; title: Joakim Zander, 1975-; title: J. Peder Zane, 1962-; title: Lior Zoref; title: Krassi Zourkova, 1974